The structure of the building crumbled around Leliana with an unbearable weight on her chest. Eyes sealed tightly shut as she tried to take a breath in. But the dust that accumulated around her only made raspy coughs fall from her lips. "Okay… I just…" Her voice spoke as she tried to open her eyes one at a time. But even this seemed impossible to do with how her head was throbbing from the pain when she hit it. But somehow she managed to peak from one eye and when she did she couldn't tell if her eyes were playing tricks on her or not from who she saw in front of her.

"… You looked shocked." Anders spoke almost too calmly considering how Leliana was pinned against the ground from some rubble, but not crushed from the angle it rested on her body.

Squinting her eyes, Leliana couldn't help but to wonder if she died. Because the matter of the fact was that Anders was dead. So how was he here? "I-I must have hurt my head harder than I thought."

"Perhaps love." A small smile crept across his lips as he stepped closer to Leliana and knelt down to her level. "A building did just take you out. Or maybe it's just a little bit of PTSD considering the way you're positioned and the electrical wires there are close to giving you shocking experience. It's slightly similar to the way you saw me last."

In a glare towards him Leliana looked around herself to try and find a way out. However her eyes went back to Anders with a sense of sadness filling them. "And then you died." So much anguish was felt with saying those words out loud as she still struggled with remembering that day that held so much regret in not saving him like she knew she could have.

Hues shifted up from Leliana and up to the creaking sound of weight of the building being shifted overhead that Anders tried not to show his own disappointment from dying too soon and more about the concern he had for Leliana. "You know Leliana… If you don't get out of here soon… Then you might be looking at the same fate."

As her eyes flinched shut with the pain radiating through her body, Leliana struggled to look around the room and for a way out. There wasn't one. She was practically pinned against two slabs of boulders and the only thing holding the top half from crushing her was the angle of another rock holding it in place. As she further examined the position she was in, Leliana noticed a small narrow opening. One which was blocked by some rebar, but if she managed to break it out, then she could be free. Without even asking for an ounce of help Leliana wrapped her hand around the metal and began freezing the metal until it was possible to break.

The last thing that was heard was a snap before Leliana squeezed her way out. Quickly Anders rushed forward to help her stand up right and Leliana paid little attention to how close he was until she finally began regaining her breath that she slowly began to look over. Once their eyes met, Leliana moved to the side to shove Anders aside, but not without stumbling less than gracefully as her legs were still weak from the adrenaline rush pulsing through her veins. "How the hell are you here!?" She shouted with a point made his direction as if it would make him answer faster. "You're dead Anders. Dead!"

"I am…" He said back calmly as he looked beyond Leliana and to the rubble that began shifting until the rest of the rocks crumbled to the ground where Leliana once was. "But love—"

Abruptly Leliana pointed at him, interrupting him from saying another word while shaking her head. "Don't you love me, for all I know you're a figment of my imagination. You can't be here. Its impossible."

Looking back at Anders, Leliana parted her lips although nothing came out. She could see on Anders face how he registered her confusion. Which resulted in the mage stepping forward slowly to close the space between them as he shook his head.

"I can tell by the look in your eyes alone that you have questions. But you don't have to worry. You can say I came because you called me." Anders explained vaguely with a pause when the settling of the building over head was heard, causing the mage to look upward. "You have to get out of here. Before it really is too late."

With her eyes looking upward as well, Leliana took Anders warning and began investigating the room. It was difficult to recall the layout of the place considering her head was still throbbing from the impact earlier, but there must have been an exit somewhere… Right? Feeling along the walls, Leliana tried to find her way out. Hoping in some helpless sense that she would feel a breeze from one of the cracks, or light shining from the other side. From not that far Anders watched quietly with his arms folded over his chest and his head tilted to one side.

"What are you doing?" He asked briefly yet curiously.

Pausing, Leliana looked over her shoulder in a huff. "Looking for way out, unlike you." She retorted back quickly as she began a careful step backwards and focused her attention on the wall in front of her. "I think the way out is that way." Leliana pointed out with her index finger wagging suspiciously at one area of the wall. With the same hand she began focusing her magic to form a spell. However before she was able to release the spell she heard footfalls approaching, as tempting as it might have been to ask him what he was doing Leliana knew exactly what he was doing. He was trying to stop her for some unknown reason.

"Again," Anders said quietly while following closely behind Leliana. "I would like to point out how structurally unsound this building appears to be. So putting more strain on it may not be the best idea..."

In a scoff Leliana rolled her eyes. While Anders concern might have been worthwhile, she clearly didn't have the time nor the patience to deal with it. She needed to find her way out, that much was proven time and time again. If by some miracle she managed to find another way out then she would have needed to move rubble to the side and that process alone could have been deadly as well. "I'm sorry Anders... This is just the risk I have to take. If this doesn't do it I'm out of options." She said with a light shrug of her shoulders.

"Are you? Or is this just typical Leliana?" Hesitantly he allowed his words to trail off as he approached closer. "C'mon love, don't you ever wonder why you keep finding yourself in positions like this where things just keep getting worse?"

"You know why I'm here... Vince... "

"Right." He said with a point. "Vince the demon you have a history with."

"Him and I having a history doesn't matter. What matters is finding Vince and stopping him before he hurts anyone else." Leliana argued bitterly as she narrowed her eyes to him. "A strategy you should appreciate considering the way you went out."

Anders threw his arms out to the side defensively. "Why, Leliana… What does that have to do with anything-"

"Alexander killed you Anders. A man who was just as evil as Vince if not worse. I had to watch with my own eyes how the life was ripped from you. Do you have any idea what that did to me, how long it took me to sleep at night!? He just didn't hurt you that day, but he hurt me; he hurt our son!" She yelled even louder while stepping closer in her anger. Only when she got too close did she stop and start to back away. It was in that short pause that her eyes dropped down between them upon her reminiscing. "Do you have any idea Anders, what its like to-" She paused in a stutter of her words to wave her hand close to her head as she spoke. "To replay a scenario inside your head a million times? ... Just wondering if... If you could just have listened to me a little bit sooner. But you didn't because you were too stubborn... Maybe you could have still been alive. Not today, but-"

"I didn't listen." He finished for her with a weak smile. "I didn't make the right choice. At least not until it was too late. Because I was stuck in my own cycle that I believed what I thought was right." He admitted calmly, trying to gain that eye contact with Leliana with only failed attempts. "Its the same dark cycle you are going down and you will continue going down this path, if you don't break free."

"No... No that's where you're wrong Anders. This isn't about me. This is about Vince and the choices he made, they are on him."

"That might very well be true. But what happens to you after all this is done. What do you become? You'll still be trapped, just like you're trapped in this room."

In a turn Leliana faced Anders. Just as a scoff left her lips she shook her head and began to smile. "You're not here... You… You probably were just sent here to test my resolve... It won't work."

"It might not… But you've changed... You know that? And as long as you're giving into your worse impulses, you are never going to break free."

"And how do you suggest I "break free" Anders?" She asked in a harsh tone towards the mage.

"You'll find a way… You always have. Just lean in to the best parts of yourself; your loyalty, your selflessness, your courage, your compassion. You are living proof people can change. Don't go down the same dark path your father choose for you. Make your own."

There Leliana's eyes uneasily shifted away from Anders as she listened to every word spoken to her. He had a point, for so long… Too long she had been doing that of what her father asked her without hesitation. It was asked of her ages ago to put an end to Vince and that was exactly what she was doing by her father's desire even if it meant losing her own life. She never thought of a different outcome because she never sought another one. For years she had really nothing to live for. What she knew, she lost. From Anders, Tempest, her children… And yes even her father. Leliana assumed it to be impossible to be happy. Truly happy due to her own track record so she never looked for an alternative when it came to Vince.

When her eyes made their way back to Anders, the mage had seen the redness coloring the whiteness that was once there while tears stained her cheeks. More than ever he wished at that point that he could have somehow made it easier for her. But he feared even she wouldn't have let him that close to do so. "Our time is up." Anders added as the noises of the building straining sang around them. Not phasing Anders to look away from Leliana even for an instant.

Leliana kept that gaze and as difficult as it was she choked back a sob to speak out towards him. "You know, Anders…" She said, pausing to clear her throat. "I miss you every day."

From across her, Anders smiled back with a tinge of sadness. "I know." There he too took a pause to hold back tears that stung the corner of his eyes. "But I'm always with you…" As soon as he said this, the mage quickly turned around to walk away as him spoke one last time with a radiating snap filling the room it was uncertain what that snap was from as all that was heard were Anders last spoken words to her. "It's time to wake up."

In a gasp, Leliana's eyes sprung open and there she struggled to take what seemed like her first breath. Almost immediately, she realized she was back between the two slab of boulders, where Anders first came to her. Knowing how to get her way out, Leliana had done just this and quickly stood to her feet where she found her balance. In a few short coughs to clear her lungs, Leliana looked around the room and saw an opening that wasn't there before. Beyond that had been light, either from outside or another part of building where Vince had been hiding. Wiping the dirt from her brow, Leliana made her way forward to the door to find what laid beyond it. Good or bad, she had to put an end to this once and for all.